We went to the harbour to check out the boat, and were a little dissapointed to sea how small it was and how old looking but we thought never mind its the diving that matters. We boarded that evening and met our comrades, Andy the kiwi instructor, Alicia our american Divemaster, mark the skipper and kieren the cook (well sort of). There were a few americans, dave the alaskan with dreads, Daniel the belgian who was so direct and at the same time naive, Some Dutch, a bunch of English (Mike, Billy and Phil) and Margaret and her son Patrik. We had our first meal of pie (not very good) and then the rough seas started, it wasnt long before at least 5 people (including Ian) were hurling over the side of the boat, luckily I was expecting it so was drugged up and amazingly managed to keep it down. It was a pretty awful night, being thrown around our bunks with our ropey stomachs, we all had a few hours kip at most, some slept on deck. The next day we started early and did 5 great dives, we went to 41 meteres which was a first for us, we saw sharks on most dives, even a hammerhead 3.5m long. We did our first unguided dive but we got lost a bit and had to come back, although we did many more and were fine. During a night dive we saw a huge turtle trying to sleep in a cave and wasnt too impressed with 16 of us descending on it with our torches. That night we had a big roast dinner and it was calm, we were all shattered so had an early night and all slept really well. The next day we did another 5 dives, a 7:30am deep dive followed by a fry up! Went to some different sites with great corals and thousands of species of fish, white tip, grey reef sharks and silver tips up to 2.5m long. We did a Navy Seal entry to a drift dive, all jumping off after eachother with the boat moving, cool stuff. Then the biggy the shark feed.....First they thre bits of fish in to get them excited, alicia dangled fish on a piece of rope and managed to pull up a small white tip for us to take photos. Son there were dozens of sharks swimming round, our nerves were starting to show as we knew we would soon be joiniong them. Even the giant trivelli and huge red bream were scary enough. We then jumped in in our buddy pairs heavily weighted and went straight down and sat in a big semi-circle and watched. Mark lowered down a huge bar with fish skewered on it into the water in front of us and feeding frenzy started, there were around 3 huge silver tips and loads of white tips and grey reef sharks, they were swimming through the gaps between us and behind us and would swim towards us then turn at the last moment. Fairly nervy but luckily not quite as hair-raising as imagined, quite difficult to stay in one place with the currents which was wiorrying as you dont really want to draw attention to yourself! That night we finished off with a dusk dive to night dive and it was great to see another turtle swimming past us. We got back to dry land after a bit of a rocky night (nothing like the first one) and said our goodbyes, it was great trip. 26 dives each is pretty good going, its so cheap to dive here, even cheaper than fiji and apparently cheaper the further south we go.....who knows.